Ken Harty

A few years ago, I saw an article on CNN.com about fonts being political and it instantly caught my eye, as I have never heard of that before. Being in the newspaper business, I found this very interesting and strange all at the same time. After all, fonts are only a style of text and their face value shouldn’t be taken as political. However, in the current atmosphere of the political world we live in, it appears they can be liberal or conservative. For example, Times New Roman is seen as a conservative font and Gill Sans MT is more liberal — and the most conservative font is Broken Planewing.

The Daily Journal recently launched on our website fergusfallsjournal.com our annual promotion called “Best of Otter Tail County” or “BOTC” for short.

A billion here and a billion there, lately that seems to be the norm for Congress these days. It seems like more and more billions are being approved to spend. This raises the obvious question: how much is a billion or trillion, dollars that is?

The last few days have been sweltering hot with temperatures in the high 80’s to low 90’s. One only has to walk outside briefly to quickly find out how hot it is. This is the time of year that we profess to never complain about winter again and then in the winter we decide to never complain about the hot summers again.

We have all seen the commercials and billboards warning us of the dangers of texting and driving. It has been no secret that taking your eyes off the road while driving is dangerous, yet people still do it.

Last week’s storm that hit the area was no joke. We all knew a storm was coming as the skies grew darker and darker and it was plenty warm out. I was at Noon Rotary at the Salvation Army here in Fergus Falls when I really noticed it was imminent that we were in for some weather. As we wrapped up the meeting everyone was talking about the incoming storm and told to be safe. I hustled back to the Daily Journal office which is located inside the old library on North Union Avenue.

Just about everything these days comes with a warning label. These labels are there to protect us from unknowingly hurting ourselves with whatever product we are trying to use, right? After all, that is the intent of the label; however, I feel they were put there to protect the manufacturer from being sued after someone injures themselves using their product.

Exercising is important and an easy one to do is walking. Sometimes I do not feel like exercising as it is much more appealing and comfortable to sit down and watch the evening news rather than go for a walk. I really should do more walking, after all, walking is the number one activity everywhere, also known as “man’s best medicine.” It’s something we do every day and take for granted the benefits that it has for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. According to

Ever read about a boat accident and wonder how in the world it could have happened? I know I have, but after last weekend I will wonder much less about how boating accidents can happen.

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